A Home in Tibet

When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India far from her country and her family Tsering decides to take a handful of her ashes to Tibet. She arrives at the foothills of her mother's ancestral home in a nomadic village in East Tibet to realize that she had been preparing for this homecoming all her life. Everything is familiar to her especially the flowers of the Tibetan summer. She understands then the gift her mother had bequeathed her the love of a land. A Home in Tibet is a daughter's haunting tribute to a mother and a homeland. A story about the love between a mother and a daughter who only had each other as family and refuge it gestures to the journeys made by those exiled from their lands and the dreams of daughters. About the Author Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's parents fled Tibet in 1959 and she was raised in India and Nepal by her mother. She has published three collections of poetry and two chap books. A Home in Tibet is her first full-length book.